Sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift have been circulating on X (formerly Twitter) over the last day in the latest example of the proliferation of AI-generated fake pornography and the challenge of stopping it from spreading.

X’s policies regarding synthetic and manipulated media and nonconsensual nudity both explicitly ban this kind of content from being hosted on the platform.

  • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    What I don’t understand is how many people condemn all of generative AI. For me the issue seems to be one of consent and compensation, and ultimately of capitalism.

    Would you be okay with generative AI whose training data was vetted to be acquired consentually?

    Not if it was used to undercut human artists’ livelihoods.

    Hypothetical future where everybody gets UBI and/or AI becomes sentient and able to unionize, maybe we look back at this again.

    I don’t think AI has a soul but there no reason it couldn’t be given one.

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      11 months ago

      I’m curious what you mean by soul here, if you’re using it in a metaphorical sense or the religious sense

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          11 months ago

          Well I’ve never heard of a religious person claiming AI could have a soul in the religious sense, and “soul” has other meanings than the religiously literal one, so yes?

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            11 months ago

            Well how many and what difference sorts of religious people have you come across?
            People hear “religious” and seem equate it with “Abrahamic malarkey it isn’t couth to call folks on.”

            “Religiously literal” seems a contradiction of terms a well. There is truth and there is ways to understand and to convey that truth.